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EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. Today Africa has millions of people who have HIV/AIDS. …
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… had been vocal about the apartheid policy since the early 1950s. On 1 April 1960, the UN Security Council, in its first …
A Place of Freedom
… of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid in the 1950s. In 1920 Manilal confessed to a friend: For a …
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… people had become disillusioned with the ANC by the late 1950s, the PAC claimed, it was because they had seen time and … ANC was relatively weak and had made…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… break ideologically from the liberation movements of the 1950s. The intellectual ferment and creativity and increased … that had been part of the Congress…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
… at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the collection comprises historical …
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… sanctions against South Africa dates back to the late 1950s. In 1959, the Anti-Apartheid Movement which played a …
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… residents to be humiliated and forced to relocate - in the 1950s an event of the same nature saw Sophiatown residents …
PlaceObservatory
… 1821. It's an arty district locally known as ' Obs '. The main entertainment area is centered around the Lower Main Road. You’ll find quirky restaurants,…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against apartheid …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… short story Requiem for Sophiatown (destroyed in the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what …
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… its own forms of political philosophy. While Joshua’s main interest is Early Modern thought, much of his research … studying Politics and International…
Introduction
… confidence that was evident in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are two strands in Indian politics in this … Pact of 1947 foreshadowed major events in…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… some people and not others.” [viii] South Africans in the 1950s grew up in a time in which segregation was a part of … South Africa at the end of apartheid…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… The Defiance Campaign was planned in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws …
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - … for a revolutionary road. More decisively than the 1950s, however, the last ten…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main combatants of the domestic workers efforts were the laws … the domestic workers unionisation…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the …
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… South Africa's labour laws for the first time since the 1950s. Non-racial unions agreed to continue their defiance of …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… was born in 1917. In his early childhood, aged 4 in the 1950s when Tariq’s mother had her back to the wall she was …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the ages of 14 and 28. This provided the Party with its main source of recruits. In 1922, the YCL played an important … Roux impressed upon their fellow YCL…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… in the history of South African documentary photography is 1950s. The influences of the picture magazines which had made … been seen. His contribution…
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
… us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the Gools, Rassools, and …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Congress (ANC) as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… across Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State. 1950s South African music came into International prominence … and Letta Mbulu gained fanatical followings…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… whites could play a role in the liberation of Blacks. “The main thing was to get black people to articulate their own … questioned and openly rejected by…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… the great excitement and emotions of the event. Life in 1950s South Africa is also brought vividly into perspective …